When Jeff Samardzija’s first fastball of the spring was clocked at 94 miles per hour, I started planning my “the Giants are going to keep Dereck Rodríguez out of the rotation” article. I wasn’t going to agree with the decision, but it sure seemed like the team was preparing us for it. A healthy Samardzija was bad news for a pitcher with options.

There won’t be a reason to write that column, mercifully. Rodríguez is in the rotation, according to Bruce Bochy, which ends the debate before it really got started. I was really, really interested in finding out how the Giants were going to spin this — there were about two good things about last season, and Rodríguez was three of them — but we should probably embrace the normal bits of news as they roll in.

While Bochy isn’t claiming that the rotation is set, we can do it for him. The rotation is set. It will look something like this: